With the heatwave on its way next week, Dunelm has discounted the price of its highly-rated temperature-regulating duvet just in time
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Dunelm’s temperature-regulating duvet has been slashed in priced(Image: Dunelm)
If you haven’t heard already, there’s an apparent heatwave on the way next week and with temperatures potentially up to 29 degrees, it’s the perfect time to invest in some cooling bedding.
Let’s face it, there’s nothing worse than tossing and turning all night in some overheated bed sheets. And if, like me, you live on a noisy street and prefer to keep the window shut, a temperature-regulating duvet is calling your name.
Luckily, Dunelm must’ve heard the news about the rising temperatures, and have slashed 20% off its Fogarty Temperature Regulating Wool All Seasons Duvet. This means the kingsize duvet is now £64 discounted from £80 – a £16 saving.
Filled with 100% pure New Zealand wool and wrapped in soft, breathable cotton, this clever duvet is designed to keep you cool when it’s hot and cosy when the temperature drops, making it ideal for both heatwaves and winter chills.This means you get the most bang for your buck with a duvet that works year round.
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This duvet has been designed to keep you cool when it’s hot and warm when the temperature drops(Image: Dunelm)
The cotton is both unbleached and undyed, which not only means the fibres maintain their natural softness, but is also greener as less energy, water and chemicals were required to produce the duvet. A win for you and a win for the planet.
With almost 90% of reviews boasting 5-stars, it’s clear to see this duvet is popular among shoppers. One happy customer wrote: “This is an excellent duvet. It has a good weight, doesn’t move on the bed, and it responds to different temperatures and it certainly adjusted because our sleeping temperature was perfect. It lies very flat and neat on the bed and we are very pleased with it”.
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A second added: “I was suffering with hot flushes being of a certain age and this duvet has helped 100%! I was recommended this product and I so the same.” One shopper, however, noted that although this duvet is great for keeping cool in warmer weather, it’s not great for the opposite as advertised. They wrote: “While I am cooler in bed with this duvet than with a conventional duvet on warmer nights, it does not keep me warm enough during colder nights.”
As part of activities to celebrate Nigeria’s 26th anniversary of unbroken democracy, the Presidency on Thursday, June 12, 2025 holds a special Democracy Day Lecture at the State House, Abuja.
The event has its theme as ‘Consolidating on the Gains of Nigeria’s Democracy: Necessity of Enduring Reforms’.
Ukraine has kept up the pressure on Russian airfields and war production in the past week after its highly successful Operation Spiderweb, which destroyed Moscow’s strategic bombers on June 1.
Russia responded with its biggest air raids on Ukrainian cities, causing dozens of civilian casualties and introducing a jet-powered version of the Iranian-designed Shahed drone.
On Friday, Ukraine struck at least three fuel tanks at Engels airbase 500km (310 miles) southeast of Moscow. Fires were also reported at Dyagilevo airbase, 170km (105 miles) from the capital. Both had been targeted in Operation Spiderweb.
Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation, also said Kyiv’s forces struck the JSC Progress plant in Michurinsk, a key link in Russia’s defence industrial chain manufacturing electronic stabilisation and control systems for artillery and rocket systems.
Ukraine hit Russia’s munitions industry again on Sunday, targeting the Azot chemical plant in Novomoskovsk, which produces military explosives.
Ukrainian drones also stopped operations at the Tambov Gunpowder plant, 430km (270 miles) southeast of Moscow, on Wednesday. Kovalenko said it was “one of the main suppliers of explosives for the Russian army”, providing gunpowder for bullets, shells and rocket systems.
Geolocated footage confirmed the hit.
(Al Jazeera)
At the start of this week, Ukraine destroyed two fighter planes on the tarmac of the Savasleyka airbase in the region of Nizhny Novgorod east of Moscow. The planes were used to fire Kinzhal ballistic missiles, the Ukrainian military’s General Staff said.
Ukrainian drone strikes caused fires at a plant in the city of Cheboksary, 500km (310 miles) east of Moscow, which manufactures Comet antennas that provide Russian Shahed drones with resistance to Ukrainian electronic warfare. The plant also makes guidance kits retrofitted onto inertial bombs, turning them into precision-guided glide bombs.
Russia has been dropping more than 3,000 of these bombs onto Ukrainian front-line positions every month. It is key to Moscow’s ability to maintain pressure on the ground. Ukraine’s strikes against airfields and factories aim to stop these bombs’ production and delivery.
Ukrainian servicemen fire a BM-21 Grad multiple-rocket launch system towards Russian troops in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine [Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Reuters]
Russia reported that it downed 102 Ukrainian long-range drones on Tuesday morning.
“We have come very close to the moment when we can force Russia to stop the war. We feel it,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an ABC interview on Saturday, a possible reference to the growing effectiveness of Ukrainian long-range interdiction of Russian war production.
French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Saturday that carmaker Renault was launching a new partnership in Ukraine to build drone production lines – a result of Kyiv’s months-long effort to attract more Western investment in domestic weapons production.
Russia strikes back
Stung by the loss of perhaps a third of its strategic bomber fleet, used to launch cruise missiles against Ukraine, Russia has scaled up its attacks.
It launched more than 1,400 Shahed drones in the past week and launched at least 59 cruise missiles.
On June 5, two Russian attacks destroyed the Kherson regional administration building. On Friday, a deadly cocktail of 407 drones and 45 missiles of various kinds killed at least four people in Kyiv and injured dozens across the country.
At least one person was reported killed when Russian bombs hit an apartment building in Kharkiv on Saturday. Kharkiv, which is only 30km (20 miles) from the Russian border, had been shelled continuously for 24 hours, Zelenskyy said. Ukraine’s air force said on Saturday that Russia had launched 215 drones across the country overnight.
Russia launched its largest yet attack of drones and missiles on Sunday night at Kyiv and Dubno in the Rivne region of Ukraine. Ukraine’s air force said on Monday that it had intercepted 479 of 499 Russian air targets. Of the 479 downed objects, 460 were drones.
On Tuesday Ukraine said it intercepted 277 out of 315 launched drones and stopped seven missiles.
(Al Jazeera)
A further salvo of drones targeted Kyiv on Tuesday, which reportedly included a jet-propelled version of the Shahed for the first time, capable of reaching speeds of 600 kilometres per hour (370 miles per hour). The strike targeted “Ukraine’s aviation, missile, armour and shipbuilding industries in Kyiv”, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said.
At least two people were killed in Kharkiv on Wednesday after 17 Shahed drones fell on the city.
Russia is now capable of manufacturing 2,700 Shahed drones and 2,500 decoys each month, compared with 500 a year ago, according to Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence Service, meaning that strikes of this scale and density are indefinitely sustainable.
In addition, Russia has come to an agreement with North Korea to build Harpy and Shahed-type drones, Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s intelligence community, said in an interview with The War Zone.
“This is extremely dangerous both for Europe and for East and Southeast Asia,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. “This must be addressed now – not when thousands of upgraded ‘Shahed’ drones and ballistic missiles begin to threaten Seoul and Tokyo.”
Russia reaches Dnipropetrovsk
While the air war played out at these new levels of intensity, Russian troops in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region at the weekend reached the border of Dnipropetrovsk, a Ukrainian region that Russian boots had yet to step on in the more than three-year war, achieving a psychological milestone.
While Ukrainian officials said fighting was still raging in Donetsk and had not spilled over the administrative border, geolocated footage on Monday showed that the Russians had reached it.
Russian units were “developing an offensive on the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk Region”, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
A rescue worker assists a woman during an evacuation from an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine [Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Reuters]
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian troops intended to create a buffer zone in Dnipropetrovsk, using the same argument Russia has offered for its second attempt to invade northern Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy regions last year and this year, respectively.
The deputy chairman of Russia’s National Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, sought to leverage the news to diplomatic advantage on Telegram: “Those who refuse to acknowledge the realities of war at the negotiating table will face new realities on the battleground,” he wrote. “Our Armed Forces have launched an offensive in the Dnepropetrovsk region.”
EU and US pull further apart
United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not attend the 28th Contact Group for Ukraine on June 4, in keeping with US President Donald Trump’s freeze on aid to Ukraine, but Ukraine’s European allies did show up and pledged significant military upgrades.
Britain said it would spend $476m to build 100,000 drones for Ukraine in 2025, 10 times its drone assistance last year.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius announced that a long-range weapon Ukraine has been building with German funding could enter service imminently. “The first systems can be put into operation in the armed forces of Ukraine in a few weeks,” he said.
On Tuesday, the European Commission floated an 18th package of sanctions targeting Russia’s banks, energy revenues and military.
Among other things, the sanctions would forbid any transactions involving Russia’s damaged and currently inoperable Nord Stream gas pipelines. The measure would send “a clear message to global liquefied natural gas producers, which may be hesitant to expand partnerships with the European buyers as long as a relapse to Russian gas dependence is a possibility”, wrote Olga Khakova, deputy director for European energy security at the Atlantic Council.
(Al Jazeera)
Europe has already banned all Russian oil imports but allows tankers insured in the European Union to trade oil to third parties for up to $60 a barrel. It would now lower that price cap to $45.
The proposals also included sanctioning an additional 22 Russian banks and banks from third countries.
The oil price cap was to be discussed at the Group of Seven meeting in Canada next week. EU leaders are to approve the sanctions later this month.
“Europe remains focused on the war and, let’s say, continues to engage in militaristic bravado,” Peskov said. “There are absolutely no signals about the willingness to seek any common ground.”
Meanwhile, Hegseth told a US Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday that the US would provide no military aid to Ukraine.
Eight years after being told he should be satisfied if he could walk again, 40-year-old former Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla scored the goal that put boyhood club Real Oviedo into the La Liga play-off final.
The Spaniard came off the bench at half-time with his side trailing 1-0 to Almeria in the play-off semi-final second leg.
Within four minutes, the midfielder scored a free-kick with his weaker left foot to put Oviedo 3-2 up on aggregate.
The 1-1 second-leg draw was enough for Oviedo to reach the play-off final, where they will face either Mirandes or Racing Santander.
“I’m just trying to enjoy what is left of my career, knowing that the end is closer,” Cazorla said after the game.
“I try to enjoy myself, which is the most important thing. I was sad that I wouldn’t start the game but I knew that this game was important. I’m happy I was able to help the team.”
Cazorla, a two-time European champion with Spain, spent six years at Arsenal and made 180 appearances before leaving in 2018.
The final two years of his time in north London were plagued with injuries.
Cazorla suffered an Achilles injury in October 2016, with the midfielder going on to have 11 operations to cure the problem.
One of the operations led to gangrene with doctors telling Cazorla he should be satisfied to walk again.
However, the Spaniard pushed to restart his football career and he had his Achilles reconstructed, with doctors grafting skin from his left arm – featuring a tattoo – to his right ankle.
Cazorla spent two years at La Liga club Villarreal after leaving Arsenal in 2018, before a three-year stint in Qatar.
Wakefield Trinity head coach Daryl Powell has said his family have “stuck together” after his grandson Clarke was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in January.
The club are raising money for Candlelighters Trust, which provides practical and emotional support to children with cancer in Yorkshire, at Sunday’s home game against Leigh (14:30 BST) which will be broadcast live on BBC2.
“It has been a really difficult and emotional time for my family, especially for my daughter Kegan and her husband Eamonn,” he told BBC Radio Leeds.
“It’s very difficult for families when something like this happens, particularly when it is someone so young – he was just before his first birthday when he went into hospital.”
Powell added: “He’s had six months of constant treatment. LGI [Leeds General Infirmary] and the oncology ward have been unbelievable in treating Clarke.
“We’ve done what families do and stuck together and supported one another.
“It’s the start of a journey and we’re hopeful that he’s going to be well. He’s happy and smiling at the moment whilst still going through a very difficult time.
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Wakefield’s players will wear special jerseys in Sunday’s Super League game which will be auctioned for the charity.
Powell credited the players and the club for the backing he and his family have received.
“When he first got diagnosed I explained to the players and told them I just wanted them to treat me the same because I want to come here and this to be my diversion from the difficulties at home,” he said.
“The players have been phenomenal.
“The shirt has got Clarke’s name and the charity on the front of it and I’m proud and honoured that the club have done that.”
He added: “A lot of my family will be here on Sunday and it will be a big day for the charity. They’ve been unbelievable providing support in all sorts of different ways.
Protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, which began on June 6 in Los Angeles, have spread beyond the California city, across the United States.
This comes days before a military parade scheduled on Saturday in Washington, DC, which marks the US Army’s 250th anniversary. More protests across the US are scheduled on Saturday.
Here is what we know about what is happening and where.
Why are there protests in LA?
On June 6, ICE carried out immigration enforcement raids in LA, in which uniformed ICE agents arrived at various sites in LA in groups of unmarked vehicles, arresting 44 people in a military-style operation.
The operation triggered protests in LA on the same day, and crowds rallied outside a facility where some of the detainees were believed to be held. They were dispersed by police, but protests began again soon after.
US President Donald Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops into the city on June 8, a move condemned as an “illegal takeover” by California Governor Gavin Newsom, who then filed a lawsuit to try to prevent their deployment onto the city streets. The next day, Trump doubled the number of active National Guard troops in the city to 4,000.
On Monday, Trump also ordered 700 marines to be deployed from the Twentynine Palms base east of Los Angeles, describing the city as a “trash heap” that was in danger of burning to the ground.
A federal court hearing about whether or not Trump can legally deploy the National Guard and marines to assist with immigration raids in LA is scheduled for Thursday.
Marines arrived in the city on Tuesday. However, as of Wednesday, they had still not completed training, The Hill reported, citing an unnamed US Northern Command official. The marines are now expected to join the National Guard troops on the streets of LA on Friday.
On Tuesday night, LA Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew in downtown LA, and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) made several arrests.
A sixth day of protests continued on Wednesday. These were mostly peaceful but featured occasional outbursts of violence.
Where have the protests spread to?
By June 9, protests against the ICE raids and Trump’s deployment of the military had spilled over to several other US cities in solidarity with the LA protesters.
By Wednesday, protests had appeared in 12 other cities across several states. Here is the situation in each city:
California
LA is not the only city in California which is experiencing protests.
San Francisco
Soon after the start of the LA protests, a peaceful protest began in San Francisco with demonstrators gathering outside an ICE building on financial hub Sansome Street in the north of the city.
Local media reported that police arrived in riot gear and made arrests.
On Sunday, June 8, San Francisco police arrested about 60 people, and declared the protest an “unlawful assembly”.
On Monday, the San Francisco police released a statement on X, saying the demonstrations had been “overwhelmingly peaceful” but that “two small groups broke off and committed vandalism and other criminal acts”. It said police had made more arrests, without specifying the number of people arrested. Local media reports suggest the number could be above 150.
Local media reported that ICE agents were also arresting migrants in San Francisco. The city’s mayor, Democrat Daniel Lurie, shared this news on X on Monday, saying: “I have been briefed on the ongoing immigration enforcement actions taking place downtown.”
Lurie added: “I have been and will continue to be clear that these federal immigration enforcement tactics are intended to instil fear, and they make our city less safe.”
He stated the police force would not be involved in making immigration arrests. “Under our city’s longstanding policies, local law enforcement does not participate in federal immigration enforcement. Those are our policies, and they make our city safer.”
On Tuesday, 200 protesters rallied outside the San Francisco Immigration Court. Protests were also reported in the nearby city of Oakland.
A demonstrator holds up a sign in front of police during a protest against federal immigration sweeps at the ICE building in San Francisco, California, on June 8, 2025 [Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters]
Santa Ana
On Monday, protests broke out in Santa Ana in Orange County, a largely Mexican-American city just south of LA.
The protests broke out following reports of ICE raids in the city.
Local media reported that several hundred people were protesting outside the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and court.
The Santa Ana Police Department released a statement on X saying it was aware of the immigration enforcement actions and would not participate in them.
However, the police department posted another statement on X later on Monday saying: “When a peaceful demonstration escalates into rocks, bottles, mortars, and fireworks being used against public service personnel, and property is destroyed, it is no longer a lawful assembly. It is a violation of the law.” Local media reported that several arrests were made.
Police chief Robert Rodriguez said peaceful protesters would be protected but urged residents not to participate in violent protests or vandalism. “Those who participate in unlawful activities will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
On Tuesday, National Guard troops were deployed to Santa Ana and clashes with protesters were reported.
Washington State
Protests have broken out in Seattle, Washington State’s most populous city.
Seattle
About 50 protesters gathered outside the immigration court in downtown Seattle on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, hundreds of protesters marched downtown from Capitol Hill. According to the Seattle Police Department, this demonstration was mostly peaceful, but some individuals set fire to a dumpster, which prompted police intervention.
Several clashes were also reported between protesters and the police, who arrested eight people for assault and obstruction.
Spokane
Protests also broke out in Spokane, a city towards the eastern side of Washington State.
The police arrested more than 30 protesters and dispersed the crowd using pepper balls, Spokane police chief Kevin Hall told a news conference.
Mayor Lisa Brown imposed a night curfew in the city, which was set to last until 5am (12:00 GMT) on Thursday.
Texas
Protests have broken out in several cities in Texas. Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrote on X on Tuesday: “Texas National Guard will be deployed to locations across the state to ensure peace & order. Peaceful protest is legal. Harming a person or property is illegal & will lead to arrest.”
San Antonio
On Tuesday, Abbott deployed the National Guard ahead of protests in San Antonio. The city’s mayor, Democrat Ron Nirenberg, said on Wednesday that he had not been informed in advance about the National Guard deployment and had not requested it.
More than 400 protesters gathered outside the city hall on Wednesday in a largely peaceful protest.
Austin
Hundreds of protesters gathered on Monday between the Texas State Capitol building and a federal building which holds an ICE staff office.
More than a dozen people were arrested, Abbott wrote in an X post. The police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse protesters. Some protesters threw rocks at officers and graffitied a federal building, according to local media reports.
Protesters also gathered in the Texas cities of Dallas and Houston.
Denver, Colorado
Protesters gathered outside the Colorado State Capitol in Denver on Tuesday. Police said they arrested 18 people when protesters tried to cross Interstate 25, a highway that runs through New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming.
Chicago, Illinois
On Tuesday, thousands of protesters gathered near an immigration centre in Chicago and marched downtown, blocking a plaza.
Some 17 people were arrested, according to the police and some clashes between protesters and police were reported. On the same day, a 66-year-old woman was treated for a fractured arm after she was hit by a car that drove through the protest. No other injuries have been reported.
Omaha, Nebraska
On Tuesday morning, immigration authorities raided a meat production plant in Nebraska’s Omaha city, taking dozens of workers away with them in buses.
Local media reported that about 400 people protested against this raid on Tuesday along the 33rd and L streets.
Boston, Massachusetts
On Monday, hundreds of people gathered outside Boston City Hall, calling for the release of trade union leader David Huerta, who was arrested during the LA protests. Huerta was released on Monday afternoon on a $50,000 bond. However, he remains charged with conspiracy to impede an officer, a felony which could result in a maximum of six years in prison, according to the office of the US Attorney.
New York
Thousands of people protested in Lower Manhattan in New York City on Tuesday. The protesters rallied near an ICE facility and federal courts.
On Tuesday, New York police took 86 people into custody. Some 34 of them were charged, while the rest received a criminal court summons. The police took more people into custody on Wednesday, but did not specify how many.
Law enforcement officers clash with demonstrators and detain them during a protest against federal immigration sweeps next to the US immigration court at the Jacob K Javits Federal Building in New York City on June 11, 2025 [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
On Tuesday afternoon, about 150 people gathered outside the Federal Detention Center and marched between the centre and ICE’s headquarters in the city.
After a group defied police orders to disperse from a major road, 15 people were arrested.
Washington, DC
Demonstrators marched past the Justice Department building in the US capital on Monday. The protesters were calling for the release of union leader David Huerta. There have been no reports of violence or arrests.
Will more protests take place?
Yes. On Saturday, protests opposing Trump’s policies in general are planned in nearly 2,000 locations from parks to cities to small towns.
